[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/8596045 w=572&h=429] Bored with his ad agency gig and the uninspiring work he was producing, Ji Lee – now Creative Director of Google Creative Lab – decided to take matters into his own hands in 2002. The result was the ad-spoofing Bubble Project, in which Lee placed blank speech bubbles on ads around New…
Can a person ever get too much Quentin Blake in their life? Didn’t think so.
Dang. I can hardly believe it’s already been a year since I switched my blog from Blogger to WordPress. 300 posts and 21,000 views later, it’s time to look back over the last year and evaluate: Design My main reason for switching from Blogger to WordPress a year ago was the well-designed page. Having seen…
I know, I know: “I’m making a look-n-find book, I’m making a coloring book, I’m making new album art…Won’t this guy ever shut up?” Sorry, but no. This is exciting and I want to share it with you. In fact, I need your help. The game play for “Stump The Rumpus” is all worked out,…
“I feel that a book influences, and has as much of a contributing effect, on the story as the drawings, ink, colors and paper,” Chris Ware observes. “To me, a book is a fairly obvious metaphor for a human body: aside from the fact that it has a spine, it’s also bigger on the inside than…
I’ve posted this quote before, but the text with Ira’s voice is a different experience. For those of you who didn’t catch it the first time (and for those of us who need a powerful reminder), here is Ira Glass on what makes good work:
He’s in here somewhere! At least I think I remember drawing him in somewhere… I’ve been having a blast drawing my first Where’s Waldo?-type illustration. While there are plenty of things to find, I wanted to share with you a little bit about how much fun this was to color. I packed each major stage of…
Still plugging away at my Where’s Bigfoot? drawing. I was nervous at first, that I wouldn’t know what to draw after a couple of hours, but it’s been a lot of fun coming up with creatures and scenery, and it’s coming to me a lot more easily than I thought it would. I guess all…
Recently, I was commissioned to make a giant Where’s Bigfoot? illustration. (You know, like a Where’s Waldo?, but with bigfoot.) I’ve been snapping a few photos of the drawing process along the way and thought I’d share ’em here. For all you equipment junkies: I’m drawing with a Micron 08 technical pen on 11×14″ Strathmore smooth…
A lot of artists that I follow have shared videos of themselves working through their own illustration and design processes, and the videos have been incredibly informative for me in my work. I decided to record one of my own illustrations, from start to finish, and here it is!